Trump's plans for tariffs could stoke inflation and make the Fed's interest-rate decisions more complicated.

Here's a quick primer on interest rates and what you need to know before tomorrow's Fed decision. The Fed meets eight times a year to assess the economy's health and set monetary policy ...

Policymakers took note of a job market that has "generally eased" while inflation continues to move towards the U.S. central bank's 2% target.

Investors have once again been head-faked by the Fed. After seven false alarms where markets priced in a dovish pivot by policymakers, the Federal Reserve finally turned dovish in a big way—only ...

Zack has a bachelor's from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Delmaine Donson / Getty Images While the Fed rate cuts don’t directly affect mortgage rates, changes to the federal ...

The Fed has long guarded its status as an independent institution able to make difficult decisions about borrowing rates, free from political interference. Yet during his previous term in the White ...

Recent developments have drawn ire from left and right: The Fed’s recent abrupt turn from declaring that jumbo rate cuts were off the table to surprising the market with a half-point cut in ...

For all the uncertainty about the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate moves in 2024 and beyond, there’s another major area of ...

Tune in to find out if the Fed is cutting interest rates this month, plus a look at what's to come. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree ...

But if the Fed veers from that steady pace, it likely would be to reduce rates less sharply to ensure inflation keeps falling, economists say. That may defy some forecasters’ view that the ...

"The (Fed) has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance,” the ...

Getty Images) It's "an important fork in the road for the institution," Mark Spindel, the chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital and a historian of the Fed and politics, noted in a ...